After being missing 4 days, priest is found dead in Ecuador November 6, 2024By Eduardo Campos Lima OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Four days after 53-year-old Father Enrique Fabián Arcos went missing in Ecuador, the authorities found his body Nov. 3 in a dump about 18 miles north of Ambato, where he lived.
West Virginia assisted suicide ban leads by narrow margin as vote count continues November 6, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, Respect Life, World News West Virginians appeared on track to approve a constitutional amendment to ban medically assisted suicide and euthanasia in their state, with the ballot measure leading by just several thousand votes as the counting of votes from Election Day Nov. 5 continued into the following morning.
Catholic leaders call passage of abortion amendment ‘painful moment in Maryland history’ November 6, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Local News, News Despite a campaign by Maryland’s Catholic bishops against an amendment enshrining the right to abortion in the Maryland Constitution, voters overwhelmingly passed Question 1 in the Nov. 5 general election.
Trump is reelected to White House, becoming only second US president to win second, nonconsecutive term November 6, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News Former President Donald Trump was elected to a second term in the Oval Office four years after he lost his run for a second consecutive term, according to multiple projections.
Voters in 3 states reject abortion ballot measures, defying trend around country November 6, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota Nov. 5 rejected amendments to their state constitutions that would have codified abortion as a right, while other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Missouri, did vote to codify such a right in their constitutions, on Election Day. Nebraska’s 12-week abortion ban will […]
Holy Spirit is God’s gift to help faithful pray, persevere, pope says November 6, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Holy Spirit helps the faithful understand that praying to God is praying to a loving and merciful father, Pope Francis said.
Corpus Christi embraces new mission of campus, marriage ministries November 6, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, deacons, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Corpus Christi’s status as an independent parish will soon change as the Bolton Hill faith community prepares to join with the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a combined parish seated at the basilica.
Volunteers relocate Giving Garden from St. Pius X to Immaculate Heart of Mary November 6, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Environment, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come For the volunteers, it has been an emotional time, as the bushes, along with 18 garden beds, were being moved to IHM because St. Pius X is slated to come together with St. Mary of the Assumption in Govans, St. Thomas Aquinas in Hampden, Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Washington and Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland to form a united parish seated at the cathedral.
Across the U.S., Catholics seek out prayer before — and after — voting at the polls November 5, 2024By Gina Christian Catholic Review Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News On Election Day, Catholic faithful across the nation are turning to prayer before — and after — heading to the polls Nov. 5, with many parishes and dioceses offering Holy Hours.
Sister Elizabeth Mary Novak dies at 88 November 5, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries An 11 a.m. funeral mass for Franciscan Sister Elizabeth Mary Novak will be offered Nov. 6 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Elizabeth died Nov. 3. She was 88 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 66 years.
Catholic nun among 10 killed in Indonesian volcano eruption November 5, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News At least 10 people, including a Catholic nun, have been killed in a volcanic eruption on Indonesia’s predominantly Catholic Flores Island.
Can voter lobbying groups use ‘Catholic’ in their names? Bishops may have to decide November 5, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News The appropriation of the word “Catholic” may exploit what one canon law scholar described to OSV News as a “blind spot” in canon law, the Catholic Church’s principal legislative code.
